media Man who bought Gawker for less money than a hat shutters company, keeps hat Thom Dunn

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cake Chocolate cake smeared on Madame Tussaud's waxwork model of King Charles III Mark Frauenfelder

Funny Is Joe Rogan a multiversal constant? Thom Dunn

auctions Napoléon's good luck charm could fetch $250 million or more at auction Mark Frauenfelder

19th century Is War and Peace worth reading? A review Mark Frauenfelder

trump July 4, 2030: Opening of the Trump Presidential Library Peter Sheridan

art Thomas Jefferson portrait recreated with distant descendant Rob Beschizza

futility closet In 1978, Kim Jong-Il abducted two South Korean cinema stars to make films in North Korea Futility Closet

crime Lessons from testing decades of forgotten rape kits: serial rapists are common, they don't follow a pattern, they're not very bright, and they're often the same men who commit acquaintance rape Cory Doctorow

excellent adventures Napoleon on a waterslide Jason Weisberger

art Watch: 'LIMBO,' ambient video loop by Bill Domonkos of 20 (real) death masks Xeni Jardin

deaths Read the 1999 Anthony Bourdain essay that started it all Xeni Jardin

History A brief history of how the rich world brutalized and looted Haiti, a country the US owes its very existence to Cory Doctorow

art Nigel Farage gave Steve Bannon a painting in which Bannon is Napoleon Cory Doctorow

robots What a 19th-century rebellion against automation can teach us about the coming war in the job market Mark Frauenfelder

music Compare the short film 'Whiplash' to the feature 'Whiplash', shot by shot Andrea James

Technology In 100 years, we'll remember technology's transformation and Trump will be long forgotten Cory Doctorow